New Zealand Mammals

11002-02108 South Island lesser short-tailed bat, or pekapeka tou poto (Mystacina tuberculata tuberculata) pair sharing a grub in the forest at night while foraging on the ground. This curiously semiterrestrial, omnivorous bat is the only surviving species in the bat family Mystacinidae, which is the only mammalian family endemic to New Zealand. Codfish Island *